Don Siegelman is a political prisoner in one of the most backward countries in the world. [View all]

[HomerRamone]

I’M ONLY GONNA SHOUT THIS at the top of my lungs so listen above the din. Don Siegelman is a political prisoner in one of the most backward countries in the world. THAT’S RIGHT I SAID IT. He was jailed after threatening the scheme of bastard Jack Abramoff with Indian casinos and whatnot. Governor Siegelman stood up against outright election thievery. He was stymied by election rules; errr he couldn’t contest 18,000 votes that appeared AFTER he had won re-election. ALL THIS after being returned by the good voters. Errr except for those durn Karl Rove’s operatives.

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Representative Bob Riley defeated Siegelman’s November 2002 reelection bid by the narrowest margin in Alabama history: approximately 3,000 votes. The result was controversial, as on the night of the election, Siegelman was initially declared the winner by the Associated Press and all sources. Later, Republican electioneers were employed to betray our greater purpose. A voting machine malfunction in a single county, Baldwin County, was claimed to have produced the votes needed to give Siegelman the election. When the malfunction was corrected, Riley emerged the winner. Democratic Party officials objected, stating that the recount had been performed by local Republican election officials after Democratic observers had left the site of the vote counting, thus rendering verification of the recount results impossible. However, the state’s Attorney General, Republican Bill Pryor, affirmed the recounted vote totals, securing Riley’s election.

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The lack of media coverage of both sides of this story is appalled, alarming even. The fact that Barack Obama hasn’t intervened in this but to buttress the original government prosecution once again proves the corporate machine rules all, and the elites, on both sides of the aisle despise us and all the Siegelman-like qualities we exhibit. Fer example, still thinking we live in the kind of country our forebears handed us. We should be ashamed collectively.

WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST is he was popular enough to be elected Governor twice, although the second was stolen, and therefore ALL THOSE ALABAMANS have been duped or shuttered into submission. Those not convinced by all this nonsense that this is anything but a political assassination have learned to shut their f*cking mouths. Move along. Stay behind the yellow line.

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